The Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group on Wheat Phenotyping presents:

Actual scenario and perspectives for wheat phenotyping

Wheat Initiative EWG Phenotyping workshop

Actual scenario and perspectives for wheat phenotyping

Sunday May 24, 09:00-12:30

This workshop, part of the Annual Meeting of the EWG on Wheat Phenotyping (Wheat Initiative), will showcase actual, current advances and future directions in wheat phenotyping, bringing together early-career and senior researchers.

The session will highlight emerging approaches—such as AI-driven analysis, UAV-based spectral phenomics, and high-throughput methods—and how their integration with genetic, physiological, and multi-environment data is improving crop understanding and breeding decisions. It will also foster discussion on future EWG priorities.

Overall, the workshop aims to promote exchange and collaboration toward next-generation phenotyping for wheat improvement.

Program

09:00–09:15 (Chairs) Welcome greetings and report on 2025 EWG Activities

09:15-10:30 Emerging Voices in Wheat Phenotyping: New Approaches and Perspectives from Early-Career Researchers

09:15-09:30 - Subash Thapa - Smart Phenotyping for Smarter Resistance Breeding: AI-Based FHB Assessment in Wheat.

09:30-09:45 - Akashdeep Kamboj - Integrating UAV-Driven Spectral Phenomics with Multi-Environment G×E Analytics to Enhance Hybrid Wheat Yield Prediction.

09:45-10:00 - Firozeh Solimani - A Lightweight Semi-Automated Framework for Wheat Spike Segmentation and Spike-Level Phenotyping.

10:00-10:15 - Becca Testa - Green Be Gone: Transcription Factor NAC3 Regulates Wheat Senescence.

10:15-10:30 - Ajay Siluveru - High-Throughput Phenotyping and Functional Screening of Gamma-Irradiation Mutant Populations for Grain Nutritional Quality and Nitrogen Use Efficiency.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 The point of view of Senior Researchers

11:00--11:30 Mariano Cossani - SARDI - South Australian Research and Development Institute.

Combining physiological and nutritional approaches for phenotyping wheat crops

11:30-12:00 Shannon Baker - Texas A&M AgriLife Research High Plains (To Be Confirmed)

12:00-12:30 Final Discussion and Design of 2026 EWG Activities

If you are interested in being part of the Expert Working Group? Join here: https://www.wheatinitiative.org/ewg-phenotyping